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  1. Re:more proof on The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course. Because they keep 25 year old bugs as compatibility features, while we break compatibility and fix them.

  2. Re: Go with a mailing list on Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hear, hear!

    Corporate emails at my work consist of endless top-posting after re-top-posting that must be read from the bottom to the top to make any sense of the mess. I hate top posting. the only thing worse than top posting, is when there's one person insisting on using the opposite posting style in reply to an email with many replies already in one style. (ie. top posting in reply to a bottom posted email thread/bottom posting in reply to a top-posted email thread) Then you cant just read bottom to top (or top to bottom), instead you need to jump all over the friggin' place to follow the conversation.
  3. Re:A different kind of file system? on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. All he needs to do is

    mkdir("tmp");
    chroot("tmp");
    chdir("..");

  4. Algorithms help too on Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I've seen a great many cases where developing better algorithms caused better performance (and better algorithms rather than better data, in fact, account for the vast majority of Computer Science research papers out there), so certainly it can't only be better data. Additionally, what about the times when you need a better algorithm to take advantage of the additional data. Or, what about when you combine the better algorithm with the better data.

    This article is a completely false dichotomy.

  5. Re:Complete change of strategy on Collective Licensing for Web-Based Music Distribution · · Score: 1

    Griffin says that in just the few weeks since Warner began working on this plan, the company has been approached by internet service providers 'who want to discharge their risk.' ISP's have no liability for copyright infringement, since they're a common carrier. If they think they're at risk now, then clearly the MAFIAA has repeated a lie loudly enough and intensely enough that people think it's the truth.
  6. Early or late... on Calculating the Date of Easter · · Score: 1

    Easter is always either early or late. It's never when it's supposed to be.

  7. Re:Damn on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Doesn't help. "What? You shredded it? BAM" (a bullet hole through your head.)

  8. Re:Bad Summary on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    Yep. But the major ones (changed votes) aren't the kinds of things these stupid machines have the ability to log for us. Only the secretary of state seeing something so obvious as an incorrect ballot will generate enough publicity to learn to do this right.

    Oh, since it doesn't tell you what was actually going on in this race, and who was running for what, see
    this article to know what's going on here.

  9. Spirituality and mathematics on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    Spirituality entails not following logic and reason when evaluating claims and propositions. While their domains are indeed nonintersecting, spirituality is NOT compatible with the scientific method, because accepting "spiritual" propositions means ignoring logic, something a true scientist cannot do. But spirituality can be compatible with mathematics, because they both involve accepting some basic axioms/beliefs, and then developing conclusions from those basic axioms/beliefs.
  10. Re:There is no contradiction. on The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "the Hebrew tribes". Jews today are a fully modern part of society, with very advanced scholarship in understanding the Torah, scholarship that doesn't ignore the scientific realities of the world, and doesn't stay frozen in time. And it's very different from Christian scholarship and dogma. Don't paint all religions with one brush.

  11. Re:There is no contradiction. on The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old · · Score: 2, Informative

    You've gotta read Gerald Schroeder's books. They're written for the non-physicist, and they explain how the "6-days of creation" frame of reference is a quite logical frame of reference -- it's not arbitrary.

  12. Re:Well... on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 1

    It's not clear to me how AOL intends to make money from AIM if people are using other clients without embedded ads, but I guess I don't really care either. Hence the revenue-sharing agreement. They're hoping that by offering to pay the developers for displaying AOL's ads, these clients will actually make display AOL's ads. AOL will then make money off the portion (majority) of the ad revenue that they're not giving to the developers of the clients. Still, an open source product like Gaim isn't going to bite.
  13. Re:So Americans Who Sympathize With Cuba... on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1

    es, it's quite obvious we're the only ones doing what's right. That evidence is echoed worldwide, why look what good we're doing in the Middle East. As evidenced by the moderation scores on that comment, sarcasm does not work on the net.
  14. Re:Please, keep digging your grave. :) on Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence? · · Score: 1

    And going before our new more right-leaning and business-friendly SCOTUS is supposed to scare them.....how, exactly?

    When a court leans toward conservative legal principles, the basis in legal principles is well founded, and usually tends toward conservative policy positions. But legal principles and policy positions don't always overlap, and the particular outcome in a case could surprise you. A good example of this is how Bartlett's conservative supreme court nominee (on the West Wing) was nevertheless opposed to federal legislation defining marriage as being between a man and a woman -- not because he disagreed with that definition of marriage, but because he felt that it was beyond the scope of Congress to define marriage. Similarly, if SCOTUS is business friendly, that doesn't mean they're going to countenance gross injustice and thuggery by an industry.
  15. WIMP platform on PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So now we're going to hear more about the WIMP stack for web publishing?


    Windows
    IIS
    MySQL
    PHP


    Good marketing name.

  16. The real Microsoft UNG on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 1
    Microsoft UNG

    Microsoft C#UNG (pronounced "chung" and short for C# Universal Network/Graph System) is a desktop application that displays graphs, which are collections of vertices connected by edges. C#UNG can read graphs in several file formats, lay them out using one of several layout algorithms, and display them with a variety of display options. An Excel add-in enables graph data entered in an Excel worksheet to be displayed easily in C#UNG. The components used to develop the application are available as an API for developers who want to create and display graphs in their own applications.
  17. The Hilbert Program on AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Godel proved that the Hilbert Program was impossible. Now they want to write it in AJAX?

  18. Re:Professional Tools on Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students · · Score: 1

    Emacs doesn't include compilers or runtimes for C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Java, Active Server Pages, etc... Using emacs with even one programming language (beyond Emacs LISP) is an additional download.

  19. What else is new? on Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers · · Score: 1

    Scientists have been looking to birds for thousands of years to figure out how to fly. Most of the time, it didn't help them.

  20. Re:Ron Paul? on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because Huckabee won some primaries.

    Seriously, somebody's got to mod all of these Ron Paul complaints -1 REDUNDANT. Not that I have anything against the discussion of his merits, but these aren't posts about his merits. There's like a thousand people here who all posted the same complaint that he wasn't included in the summary, and that's it.

  21. Re:How much did it cost? on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I bet they got a big fat research grant for it.

  22. Re:Rule 11 on Magistrate Suggests Fining RIAA Lawyers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whoops. I forgot the link:
    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule 11

  23. Rule 11 on Magistrate Suggests Fining RIAA Lawyers · · Score: 5, Informative
    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule 11

    The judge specifically wants to fine them under Rule 11(b)(3), which states:

    (b) By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper -- whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it -- an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances:

    (3) the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery Basically, it's a serious ethics violation, and even being called on it without a penalty is going to kill these lawyers' reputations, and effectiveness in a courtroom.
  24. Where's TFA? on Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where's the article for this story?

  25. Re:doesn't matter on New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis · · Score: 1

    Go back to your elementary school history class. The House of Representatives is for proportional representation, and the Senate is for giving all of the states equal weight. The Senate was never intended for the calculation that you put into it. But since there wouldn't be a United States if the bigger states hadn't agreed to create the Senate the way they did, the Senate is a good thing too. There are important principles behind United States democracy that go beyond representing each person equally.